A very odd criteria indeed, which if followed would lead to the complete cessation of any innovation
in statistical approaches.
This year we are pleased to present the Nan Tobler Award for Review of the Prevention Science Literature to Dr. David MacKinnon, Foundation Professor, Arizona State University for his body of work
in statistical approaches to mediation analysis.
Overall, the discipline has not gone through the paradigm shift
in the statistical approach to data that more advanced techniques, such as forensic DNA testing, have already adopted: the shift to Bayesian statistics.
Despite differences
in statistical approach and in the selection of students to be included in the analysis, Barnard's findings are largely consistent with those we reported.
Furthermore, a detailed reanalysis showed flaws
in the statistical approach of Svensmark et al. (2012)(hereafter SES12) and these flaws were also present in the Svensmark et al. (2009) study.
There was a reason for the TOBs changes not considered
in the statistical approach for determining TOBS bias, people want to know the day's high and low temperature that day.
Not exact matches
This paper examines the day of the week effect
in the crypto currency market using a variety of
statistical techniques (average analysis, Student's t - test, ANOVA, the Kruskal - Wallis test, and regression analysis with dummy variables) as well as a trading simulation
approach.
The two - hour discussion dealt with the
statistical problems inherent
in the two respective
approaches.
Other panelists pointed out that there were several factors
in play here, not just gender, so the full matter could
in fairness only be determined by a more rigorous
statistical approach that assigned weights to each variable.
Author Dan Fabrizio, says the book, «hit # 1
in its category «Sports < Gambling,» and uses an academic and
statistical approach to finding value
in the sports marketplace.»
The study uses four
statistical approaches, which come to the same conclusion: «there is no significant correlation between dissolved methane concentrations
in groundwater and proximity to nearby oil / gas wells.»
Combined, the results of all four
statistical approaches yield a defensible, compelling argument that there is no significant correlation between dissolved methane concentrations
in groundwater and proximity to nearby oil / gas wells.»
An
approach developed
in Freiburg by researchers from Rome, Milan; Redmond, USA; Paris, and Freiburg now makes it possible for the first time to identify characteristic
statistical signatures across unmeasurable probability distributions.
Rubin - Delanchy —
in collaboration with Nick Heard, reader
in statistics at Imperial College London, and Carey Priebe, professor of statistics at The Johns Hopkins University — has developed a «linear algebraic»
approach to network anomaly detection,
in which nodes are embedded
in a finite dimensional latent space, where common
statistical, signal - processing and machine - learning methodologies are then available.
Then,
in the late 1980s, along came neural networks and
statistical approaches, and this allowed us to teach a computer to become intelligent rather than program it to be so.
Sufficient information should be supplied to allow readers to judge whether any assumptions necessary for the validity of
statistical approaches (e.g., data are normally distributed, survival data are consistent with proportional hazards
in a Cox regression model) have been verified.
«We analyzed much more data with many more diplodocid specimens than ever before, and we took a
statistical approach to do it
in a reproducible way.
Using multiple
statistical approaches to study a long - term pediatric cohort
in Nicaragua, we show that risk of severe dengue disease is highest within a narrow range of preexisting anti-DENV antibody titers.
To find out how average monthly temperatures had changed from 1847 to 2013, the researchers used an advanced
statistical time series
approach to figure out what changes
in temperature were due to natural variability and what changes represented a long - term trend.
«Our study shows how application of interdisciplinary
statistical approaches, coupled with informed models of collective motion can help extract useful biological information about social interactions
in schools of fish.
The work also explains why exoplanets appear to pile up —
in a
statistical sense — near their stars
in orbits as short as 3 days, he says, «like a school of salmon
approaching the waterfall.»
Stanley W. K. Ng, a senior PhD candidate
in the lab of Dr. Peter Zandstra at the Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto and co-lead author of the paper, used rigorous
statistical approaches to develop and test the new «stemness score,» using AML patient data provided by the Princess Margaret leukemia clinic and collaborators
in the United States and Europe.
The terabytes of data that will flow from these experiments would
in turn demand new computational and
statistical approaches and new ways to permit thousands of labs to share information.
The new study combined a
statistical approach implemented
in a unique software modeling programme called IONONEST with data from the Kilpisjärvi Atmospheric and Imaging Receiver Array (KAIRA) radio telescope
in Finland, which is capable of making sensitive broadband measurements of the absorption caused to the cosmic radio background by the ionsophere.
But even if the growth of the economy is not algorithmic, an algorithmic
approach may still be of use
in finding
statistical features of model economies for comparison to the real one.
Professor Siddiqui, Professor of Airway Diseases at the University of Leicester and Consultant Respiratory Physician at Leicester's Hospitals, added: «Further research is now underway to understand how to use these
statistical approaches to combine complex information
in asthma patients and make personalised treatment decisions.»
In this study, Rotem Ben - Shachar, Scott Schmidler, and Katia Koelle at Duke University use statistical approaches to test if proposed mechanisms can explain variation in dengue viral load pattern
In this study, Rotem Ben - Shachar, Scott Schmidler, and Katia Koelle at Duke University use
statistical approaches to test if proposed mechanisms can explain variation
in dengue viral load pattern
in dengue viral load patterns.
These kinds of observations can not be easily made under a microscope, of course, but require instead an indirect,
statistical approach: «Using small - angle X-ray scattering at BESSY II, we were not only able to ascertain that the nanoparticles are all around five nanometres
in diameter, but also measure what the separations between them are.
«Hopefully researchers will start looking
in the black holes, the larger gaps,» he says — perhaps by using the
statistical approach that he and his colleagues outlined August 30
in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Our Berkeley Earth
approach used sophisticated
statistical methods developed largely by our lead scientist, Robert Rohde, which allowed us to determine earth land temperature much further back
in time.
Statistical approaches to paternity analysis
in natural populations and applications to the North Atlantic humpback whale.
In collaboration with Stanford, the University of Southern California (USC), and the University of Alabama (UAB), the team used experimental,
statistical, and visualization
approaches to create the atlas.
Title: Combining efficacy and completion rates with no data imputation: a composite
approach with greater sensitivity for the
statistical evaluation of active comparisons
in antipsychotic Trials Author: J. Rabinowitz et al..
Despite exploiting signatures displaying different
statistical properties, these methods individually detected genes previously identified as undergoing selection
in domesticated horses, such as KITLG (9) and melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R)(40), providing important validation of the
approach as a whole.
Our lab blends computation and theory
in close collaboration with experimentalists and clinicians, developing machine learning
approaches and
statistical models of next - generation sequencing data.
The need for a systematic
approach to tractography validation and for a framework to perform
statistical model testing
in individual brains has been claimed (Pestilli Nature: Scientific Data 2015).
Our framework links innovative
approaches for (1) generating high - resolution, probabilistic projection of future climate and sea - level changes and (2) empirically identifying robust
statistical relationships characterizing how humans have responded to past climate variability and past climate change,
in order to (3) project how humans may respond to uncertain future changes.
In addition, our statistical approach provides a measure of certainty for each prediction, in contrast with current palynology methods that are almost always based on expert opinion and devoid of statistical inferenc
In addition, our
statistical approach provides a measure of certainty for each prediction,
in contrast with current palynology methods that are almost always based on expert opinion and devoid of statistical inferenc
in contrast with current palynology methods that are almost always based on expert opinion and devoid of
statistical inference.
Here, we present a new
statistical approach called oncomix, that models transcriptional heterogeneity
in tumor and adjacent normal (i.e. tumor - free) using bimodality to find oncogene candidates.
The pilot study also reported that the difference
in peripheral arterial blood flow (the movement of blood to different parts of the body, as measured by PAT), a predictor of vascular health, after eating the hamburger meal compared to the hamburger - fresh avocado meal was
approaching statistical significance...
The differences
in percentage of marital break - ups across on - line venues
approached statistical significance [χ2 (10) = 16.71, P = 0.08; Table S5], but differences across off - line venues were not statistically significant [χ2 (9) = 10.17, P = 0.34], and neither test was significant after controlling for covariates [χ2 (10) = 14.41, P = 0.17, and χ2 (9) = 7.66, P = 0.56, respectively].
Applying sound business analysis to your thought process —
in combination with
statistical principles — can help you make sense of the data and tease out which
approach maximizes your efforts.
The most sophisticated
approach uses a
statistical technique known as a value - added model, which attempts to filter out sources of bias
in the test - score growth so as to arrive at an estimate of how much each teacher contributed to student learning.
Students
in magnet public schools have slightly higher scores than assigned public school students, although the difference does not
approach statistical significance.
In simplest terms, the
statistical procedure of the Coleman Report relies on a problematic stepwise analysis of variance
approach, which makes strong assumptions about which factors are fundamental causes of achievement and which are of secondary significance.
In a recent article, Greg Branch, Steve Rivkin, and I use a variety of
statistical approaches to isolate the impacts of a principal on student learning.
The
statistical meth ods employed to analyze these data are among the more sophisticated quasi-experimental
approaches to isolating cause and effect
in nonexperimental data.
The Times analysis relied on a
statistical approach known as «value - added,» which estimates the effectiveness of teachers by crediting them for the gains students make over their performance
in previous years on standardized tests
in math and English.
In order to circumvent the issue of selection bias in the case of mandatory retention policies like the one proposed for Michigan, recent studies have utilized a statistical approach that compares children who fall just above and just below the cutoff used to determine retentio
In order to circumvent the issue of selection bias
in the case of mandatory retention policies like the one proposed for Michigan, recent studies have utilized a statistical approach that compares children who fall just above and just below the cutoff used to determine retentio
in the case of mandatory retention policies like the one proposed for Michigan, recent studies have utilized a
statistical approach that compares children who fall just above and just below the cutoff used to determine retention.
Statistical evidence about validity and reliability is unlikely to get us very far
in choosing among these
approaches.